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...journey to Wake Island, an odd atmosphere of expectancy and something very like tension settled over the expedition. Truman and MacArthur-who had never set eyes on each other, and who had clashed publicly over U.S. policy in Formosa (TIME, Sept. 4)-seemed, at the moment, like the sovereign rulers of separate states, approaching a neutral field with panoplied retainers to make talk and watch each other's eyes...
...good chance the General Assembly would have passed the resolution, sponsored by eight nations, which recommends that "all stability throughout Korea" and that "U.N. forces should not remain in any part of Korea" after they have done everything necessary to establish "a unified, independent, and democratic government in the sovereign state of Korea." Although this resolution if passed now, will give U.N. backing to the military crossing of the north-south frontier, it would have been far better to have waited for that justification before proceeding...
...months, the argument had gone on quietly but insistently at Washington's topmost levels. Should the U.S. seek a peace treaty with Japan? Yes, said the State Department; the time had come to bring a sovereign Japan back into the free world. No, the Pentagon protested; the U.S. did not dare withdraw its occupation troops and leave Japan wide open to Communist aggression...
...optimistic-better make it cautiously optimistic." Added Porter: "We have attained relative economic stability, and for the first time the Greek budget looks like a real budget!" Porter drew the reporter's attention to the fact that for the first time since the war the gold sovereign rate had dropped, taxes were being collected, and some foreign capital was trickling in. The Greeks were getting out those long-hoarded gold sovereigns from their mattresses, and investing them in apartment houses and factories...
...would not be right," muses Christopher, at a time when he is almost bowed to the ground by slander and persecution, "that a man exactly and scrupulously performing his duty to his sovereign, his native land and those it holds dear, should not be protected by a special Providence. And he is!" Aided by this inextinguishable faith, Christopher survives his enemies, but only after a siege of torments as destructive as Christian's in Pilgrim's Progress...